Romeo and Juliet, re-imagined. even though Icarus and Aria, like its forerunner, is written in verse, it truly is firmly located within the current. Icarus Alzaro is a rookie soccer megastar simply signed to a excessive profile agreement with the Aztechs of Phoenix, Arizona. Jimmy Jones, the landlord of the Aztechs, has a sullen teenage daughter named Aria.

Short-listed for the 2004 Canadian kid's ebook Centre Norma Fleck Award and recommended for the 2004 most sensible Books for children and youths researching the Arctic is a thrilling recounting of the lifetime of a nineteenth century surgeon and explorer who labored for the Hudson's Bay corporation and unfolded giant tracts of land within the Canadian Arctic and should were the genuine discoverer of the Northwest Passage.

30 In the original story, private detective Sam Spade is hired by a colorful assortment of crooks to find a valuable statue of a bird once owned by the Knights of Malta: the Maltese Falcon. In his affectionate satire, Anthony takes a slightly different spin on the story. As Booklist described it in its 2004 review: Thirteen-year-old Nick is the younger (and brighter) half of the Diamond Brothers, the world’s worst detective agency. Dwarf Johnny Naples becomes their client entrusting the two with a mysterious package (a box of Malteser chocolates) just before he is killed, leaving Tim Diamond, literally, holding the gun.

Another aspect of her bad table manners was her tendency to steal the silver. After lunch with Granny, Mr. Warden would insist on a spoon count. Wolfgang and Irma would spend hours in the pantry checking off the pieces that remained against the pieces that had been laid and then writing down a long list of what would have to be replaced. When Granny left the house at half past four or whenever, her twenty-seven-year-old coat would be a lot bulgier then when she arrived, and as she leaned over to kiss Joe goodbye, he would hear the clinking in her pockets.

One wet afternoon at the advertising agency. And it was wet, I remember it raining. I was bored, and I didn’t know what to do with myself. And without any planning or structuring or thinking, I just wrote the opening page of a children’s book. I just remember writing “Frederick K. Bauer was the most unpleasant boy in the world” or something to that effect . . And I finished it, Did you know... Did you know that Anthony Horowitz wrote The Kingfisher Book of Myths and Legends for a straight fee, rather than for royalties per copy sold?